I drive by them every day on the way to work. Unfortunately I get to see plenty of it as the area surrounding the company I work for has gone down hill over the years. It is now surrounded by low income and govt housing units. There are nice neighborhoods and there are not so nice neighborhoods in the city. Are you somehow suggesting that big cities do not have substantial areas that are full of crime? :rolleyes: I think you are the one who is blind to reality.

I'm suggesting that criminals are not, for the most part, recipients of government assistance. Do a few drug users get checks? Sure, but your generalization is way off the mark.

Yea Tim, we all know crack whores live in barns......with the pimps and the junkies. You bought into that whole "inner city wasteland" stuff huh? Truth is they are good, honest, self respecting folk who just go to work every day and want to be left alone. Salt of the earth I tells ya.

Everytime I go by a cornfield I lock my doors and check my wallet:D

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crack whores live in barns? Do they have barns in big cities like Chicago? :D :D

You guys are like a parody of two clueless white boys from middle class America.

Yes, you've been hardened by the rough and tumble Rhode Island slums:D

Put it this way. My understanding of urban America is not the result of watching a couple of rap videos and listening to Rush every day on the radio.

I'm in favor of exporting our crack whores to the country. Let them milk cows instead of the taxpayers. ;)

Clients? :D

Maybe that is the problem as I don't watch rap videos or listen to Rush (I am ashamed to admit that I listen to NPR on the way to and from work....except when Daniel Shore or Jaun Williams are spewing their crap in which case I temporarily change stations to keep my blood pressure in check). ;)

Back in the day Rodeo was the microphone assasin, droppin' beats in tha hood wid mad skillz.:D

http://www.paramountcomedy.co.uk/tra...mages/jroc.jpg

They used to, 'til they had this big fire that started in a barn. They all burned, and tenements were built on the ashes.

So those crack whores blamed the fire on some lady's cow? The nerve of them!

No, they all burned, and million dollar condos were built in the ashes for all the wealthy professionals to purchase without need farm welfare.

Reality check :D

2003 census poverty info:

Cook County (Chicago) Illinois-14.6% under the poverty level, 42.7 K average income

Henry County (mainly a rural area) NW Ohio-6.9% under the poverty level, 44K average income.

Reality has no place in CC's world. You should know that by now.

Crack is sooooo inner city. We rural folk prefer meth.

My bad. :D

Either way we still live in barns.

Indeed, my house was patterned after a 13th century barn in England built by the Knights Templar.
http://images12.fotki.com/v204/photo...House_1-vi.jpg

With windows.
http://images9.fotki.com/v183/photos...ouse_21-vi.jpg